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Patent GB-191317672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces.
Inventor: THOMAS JOHN
IPC: F23M3/00
Filed: 1913-08-01
Granted: 1914-05-28
Abstract: 17,672. Thomas, J. Aug. 1. Grates; fire - bridges; baffles.-A bearer for supporting fire - bars, fire-bridges, baffles, &c. within a furnace tube consists of a bar b, Figs. 1 and 2, having longitudinal slots c and webs a at the ends engaging with longitudinally - adjustable blocks, each comprising a top part d, Fig. 4, and bottom part e, which may or may not engage with the slot c, held together by a bolt f. Cheeks h adapted to engage with the furnace tube are pivoted at g to the blocks, and may turn in a vertical plane and, in the case where the lower part e of the block does not engage with the slot c, by slackening the bolt f, the cheeks h may be turned in an horizontal plane according to the amount of clearance between the cheeks and the bar b. A set-screw p aids in adjusting and securing each block.
Patent GB-191321687-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Change-giving Apparatus.
Inventor: VOGLESONG CLYDE CHARLES
Filed: 1913-09-25
Granted: 1914-03-19
Abstract: 21,687. Voglesong, C. C. Sept. 25. Money - delivering apparatus. - Relates to changegiving machines adapted primarily for use on street cars &c., and consists in the provision of a number of coin tubes, slides arranged below the tubes, a longitudinallymovable rotatable shaft, and means on this shaft adapted to engage certain slides when the shaft is in a certain predetermined longitudinal position. The machine is described for use with United States currency, and delivers change up to one dollar. Coin tubes 8 ... 12 are provided, partly closed at their upper ends by slotted plates 13 to prevent removal of inserted coins. The lower ends are closed by apertured slides supported by a plate 15. The tube 8 has a slide 16 of the thickness of three nickels, so that, when the slide is moved transversely, three nickels are removed. The tube 9 has two independently-operated superimposed slides 21, 22, each to remove a nickel. The slide 17 of the dime tube 10 is double the thickness of a dime, while the slides 18, 19 of the quarter and half dollar tubes remove one coin only. The slides are held in place by springs 23, and their movement is limited by screws moving in slots therein. To allow for worn coins, the upper rear end of the slide-apertures is slightly chamfered. Below the slides is a shaft 28 moved longitudinally and rotated by a removable handle 37, a socket of which engages the square part of the shaft. The handle is moved longitudinally to engage one of a series of slots 39 in the casing 38, the different slots indicating the different positions of the handle for making different amounts of change. When the handle is moved into the slot, the shaft is partly rotated to cause tongues 31 ... 36, placed at predetermined intervals on the shaft, to contact with the tongues 29 of the slides to give the required change, which falls from the slides into a shoot 43 provided with a spring-held door 44. The slides are positively returned by pins 41, and the shaft is held by a spring 42. Suspending- hooks may be provided. The thickness of the slides and the position of the tongues may be varied to give any combination of coins as change.
Patent GB-191325481-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Dop for Holding Precious Stones to be Ground.
Inventor: JACOBSON SAMUEL
IPC: B24B9/16
Filed: 1913-11-07
Granted: 1914-11-05
Abstract: 25,481. Jacobson, S. Nov. 7. Gems, treating. - A dop for holding a precious stone for grinding &c. comprises a body portion 1 which is wholly or in part of tapered formation so as to be positioned in a dop holder having a tapered seat, the apex end which carries the stone 2 projecting from one end of the holder, while the larger end projects from the other end of the holder and is provided with a toothed or serrated part 3 whereby the dop may be rotated the correct distances for treating successive facets. The dop may be moulded upon the stone and the serrated portion formed during the same operation, or the serrated part may be secured to the body by screws &c. The head of the dop may be formed with a circular member carrying indications, and recesses or apertures 5 are provided at the apex to permit inspection of the stone. Specifications 25,480/13, [Class 83 (i), Casting &c. metals], 25,482/13, and 25,483/13 are referred to.
Patent GB-191326705-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Acupuncture Instrument.
Inventor: RICHARDS WILLIAM CORNISH
IPC: A61H39/08
Filed: 1913-11-20
Granted: 1914-08-20
Abstract: 26,705. Richards, W. C. Nov. 20. Puncturing - appliances. -A surgical puncturing- instrument a is fitted with a collar e or other means whereby a piece of silk or like material g saturated with an antiseptic may be held over the end of the instrument so that the needles b pass through the silk immediately before entering the skin of the patient.
Patent GB-191328292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Regulating Devices for Electric Motor.
Inventor: HAYWOOD WILLIAM GEORGE
IPC: H02P1/06
Filed: 1913-12-08
Granted: 1914-12-08
Abstract: 28,292. Haywood, W. G. Dec. 8. Regulating switches; switches, quick-action. -A regulator comprises a quick make-and-break switch confined in a single casing with a resistance of the kind described in Specification 14,814/03, [Class 37, Electricity, Measuring &c.]. As shown in Fig. 1, a resistance 3 is mounted in grooves around the periphery of an insulating block carrying a quick-action switch 8 with blades 8 and an indicator plate 12. In the form shown in Fig. 4, a copper contact block 20 is carried by a spring 19 attached to the operating spindle and snaps from one cam-shaped contact 16 to the next as the spindle is turned. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 15,864/92, 13,734/09, [Class 35, Dynamo-electric generators &c.], and 21,504/12.
Patent GB-191402446-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cowls for Chimneys, Stove Pipes, Ventilating Shafts, and the like.
Inventor: ILIFF FRANK
IPC: F23L17/02
Filed: 1914-01-30
Granted: 1914-05-07
Abstract: 2446. Iliff, F. Jan. 30. Chimney and ventilating-shaft tops.-The end of the shaft a is fitted with a truncated cone c, and a smaller cone e is carried at an adjustable distance by stays e<2>, projecting within it and secured to a short piece of tube e<3>. A flat, curved, or otherwise shaped plate e' may be provided within the cone e.
Patent GB-191403872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Raising or Digging Turnips and other like Roots.
Inventor: SMITH ALEXANDER
IPC: A01D25/02
Filed: 1914-02-14
Granted: 1915-02-15
Abstract: 3872. Smith, A., and Wood, W. M. Feb, 14. Crops, root, digging, topping, and tailing machines for.-Consists in a machine of known kind for raising turnips and delivering them direct to the grcund in combination with a device also of known kind by which the turnips from four rows can be delivered in a single row. The machine comprises a rotary elevating-wheel, means for tailing the roots and pushing them laterally into the elevating- wheel, and an adjustable shoot. The wheel shown consists of rings 4 fastened to bent spokes 5, the outer ring being smaller than the others. Curved bars are fastened to the spokes to form pockets to raise the roots. A curved guide may be provided to retain the roots in the pockets. The wheel is mounted in an open box frame 1 provided with horse shafts 2 and with laterally projecting bars or tubes 15 carrying a small wheel 16. The oblique tailing-knife 8 is connected to a slide 10 which is raised and lowered by means of a lever. Attached to the slide 10 is an arm 11 carrying curved or bent bars 12 which push the roots into the wheel. The shoot 14 that receives the roots from the drum is formed with a hinged part 19 which may be turned up by means of a weighted lever 20, so that the roots fall nearer the knife 8. Baffles 18, 21, 22 prevent the roots from getting out of line. The wheel 16 has an elongated nave 25 so that the width of the machine may be adjusted by reversing the wheel. Topping-apparatus may be provided in front or at the side of the knife 8; or a separate topping-machine may be used. According to the Provisional Specification, the elevating-wheel may have an inner casing and segmental pockets open at the side, and the roots may be delivered to a series of shoots, or to a box or hopper having a hinged or sliding bottom.
Patent GB-191407270-A (GB)
Title: Meat Cutting Machine.
Inventor: DIECKMANN OTTO
IPC: B26D1/54
Filed: 1914-03-23
Granted: 1915-06-17
Abstract: 7270. Dieckmann, O. March 23. Cutting slices in succession. - Band - knife slicing-machines are provided with a special guide for the knife at t h e cutting point and with means for stacking the cut slices. Fig. 3 shows the general arrangement of the machine, and Fig. 4 the knife guide. The endless band-knife is carried on two pulleys 2, 2<a>, the former of which is driven by hand-gearing 3. Studs on the pulleys engage holes on the band to prevent slipping. The meat &c. is placed on a table 9 and pushed by hand transversely to the knife. When the knife commences to cut, the meat contacts with the rail 14 of an horizontal roller-guided spring carriage and pushes this forward to receive the cut slice. The spring retracts the carriage after each cut, so that the rail is level with the cutting-edge of the knife. By this means, the carriage is always at the same point when the cut slice is delivered, the slices thus being piled one on the other. The cutting-edge of the knife 1, Fig. 4, only projects slightly beyond the edges of the guides 5, 5<a>, while the back edge bears against a plate 6 which is slightly thicker than the knife. The distance between the front edges of these guides is adjusted by means of a screw 8.
Patent GB-191407407-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Resilient Wheel.
Inventor: MCKINNON CHARLES
IPC: B60B9/26
Filed: 1914-03-24
Granted: 1914-06-11
Abstract: 7407. McKinnon, C., Brouff, W. C., Gell, P. P., and McPherson, C. March 24. Spring wheels with continuous outer rigid ring and metal springs.-A floating inner ring 14, arranged between the hub and an outer ring 6 rigidly connected to the hub by a plate 5, is connected by spokes 17 passing through slots 7 in the outer ring to the rim 23. Conical springs 26, elliptical in plan, are arranged on the rods and bear against the rim and outer ring. The reduced outer ends 20 of the rods fit in holes in the rim. The inner ends of the rods screw into holes in the inner ring and are fitted with nuts 19 screwing down on to the ring. The plate 5 is secured detachably on studs 4 carried by the hub flange. The outside detachable plate 28 has an annular rib 29 supporting the ring 6. A driving-connexion is obtained by tangential plate or helical springs 9, which connect the hub to a ring 12 removably held in the ring 14 by means of transverse keys and keyways 13.
Patent GB-191410099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pressure Relief Apparatus for use in Fermentation Processes.
Inventor: FERTL MICHAEL
IPC: C12L9/00
Filed: 1914-04-23
Granted: 1914-05-28
Abstract: 10,099. Fertl, M. June 11, 1913, [Convention date]. Pressure-relieving devices. - A liquid seal pressure - relieving device, particularly applicable for use in connexion with fermentation processes, and of the type in which the outlet branch of a U- tube is provided with a series of projections adapted to act as bubble breakers, has the bubble breakers arranged in a series of interconnected longitudinal passages. In the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the outlet arm comprises a box with a glass front 6 secured by a frame 7, and has projections 5 arranged in passages formed by longitudinal partitions 10'. The passages communicate the one to the other through ports 9<1> formed in the partitions. Modifications are described, showing various ways of arranging the partitions.
Patent GB-191411107-A (GB)
Title: A Method for the Preparation of Hydrocyanic Acid Synthetically by the Circulating Passage of a Gas Mixture through an Expanded High Potential Arc.
Inventor: LIPINSKI ANTON VICTOR
IPC: C01C3/02
Filed: 1914-05-05
Granted: 1915-04-29
Abstract: 11,107. Lipinski, A. V. May 5. Hydrocyanic acid is obtained from nitrogen and oil or natural gas which may be carburetted with paraffin hydrocarbons such as benzine, by passing the gas mixture through an expanded high - potential arc, and the reaction products, freed from hydrocyanic acid, are returned to the reaction chamber just beyond the arc so as to cool the gases and avoid the formation of soot from unused carbonaceous gas. The gases are replenished in nitrogen by withdrawing a part from the circulation, burning it with air in a separate combustion chamber, and returning it to the furnace. In a suitable arrangement, the central water-cooled electrode 7 is surrounded by a cylindrical electrode 1. opening into a water-cooled chamber 2 and surrounded by an electro - mag-net 14. The arc is formed between the electrodes as shown by the dotted lines A, and the gases, after passing through the arc, are cooled by reaction products freed from hydrocyanic acid admitted through the central electrode and escaping by a passage 13. In. large furnaces, the cooling- gas may also be admitted at 16 by jets from an annular pipe.
Patent GB-191411269-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Puttees.
Inventor: WATSON WALTER
IPC: A41D17/04
Filed: 1914-05-07
Granted: 1915-03-04
Abstract: 11,269. Watson, W. May 7. Puttees. - The curved edges of a knitted puttee are produced by knitting the puttee in sections. such as A<1>, A<2>, and at the end of each section dropping a stitch at one side and taking up a stitch at the other side. The number of rows in the sections may be constant or variable, and the yarn employed may be of silk, wool, cashmere, cotton, hemp, wood pulp, &c., or combinations of these.
Patent GB-191416048-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Ratchet Mechanism for Combined Signal Bell and Indicators and for other purposes.
Inventor: LUND THOMAS HENRY
IPC: B66B19/06
Filed: 1914-07-06
Granted: 1915-07-06
Abstract: 16,048. Lund, T. H. July 6. [Cognate Application, 23,519/14.] Mechanical telegraphs; bell signals. - Relates to ratchet gearing for combined signal bell and rotary indicators a n d for like purposes, of the kind comprising a wheel or disk having detent teeth or projections and rotated step by step by means of a rigid detent arm mounted to rock about a stationary centre, a roller or like detent being provided. The ratchetwheel B, Fig. 1, has symmetrical teeth, and the rigid detent arm A is movable about a stationary centre 15, so that the arc described by its detent end when engaging with the teeth intersects the periphery of the ratchet-wheel and turns it through the space of one tooth. A roller detent 17 is carried by an arm 18 pressed against the wheel by a spring 19. To prevent the ratchetwheel from turning through more than one revolution, the gap between the last tooth 14 and the tooth 1 is sufficiently wide to prevent the detent A from engaging the tip of the tooth 1 when one revolution has been made. The detent arm A may be so connected to the arm 18 carrying the roller 17 that, when the arm A is turned sufficiently out of contact with the ratchet-wheel, the roller 17 is lifted clear of the ratchet-wheel, which is returned to zero by a spring. Figs. 4 and 5 show a mechanically - controlled signal bell and indicator having the ratchet mechanism indicated above. The ratchet-wheel B carries the indicating dial or pointer, and the hammer shaft 38 of the bell has an arm 37 for engagement by a spring-controlled pawl 34 on a part 36 of the detent A. The connexion between the detent A and the arm 18 comprises an arm 27 on the rock-shaft 15, to which arm is jointed a lever 25 having a forked end for engagement with a pin 29 on the arm 18 when the detent A is turned to the extreme right. When the arm 18 and the roller 17 are raised by the lever 27, the ratchet-wheel is returned to zero by a cord 24 and a wire spring 23. The detent A is operated in opposition to a spring 33 by an arm 32 on the shaft 15 connected by a cord 31 to a hindlever C movable in a guide D. The operative movement of the detent A is effected by moving the lever C between the lower stops 28, 30, Fig. 5, and the movement effecting the release of the roller 17 is effected by pressing back the lever, which is raised to the upper stop 30. In order to stop the ratchet-wheel when returned to zero, a stop 59 on the case enclosing the mechanism is engaged on one side or the other by a stop 60 on the ratchet-wheel when this is in the zero position or in the extreme position in the opposite direction. To prevent possible rebound, the arm 61 of the spring-controlled lever 61, 62 enters a gap 65 in a circular flange 64 on the ratchet-wheel.
Patent GB-191500101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cigarettes.
Inventor: HOUGHTON FRANK
IPC: A24D1/08
Filed: 1915-04-27
Granted: 1915-12-23
Abstract: 101. Houghton, F. April 27. Cigarettes; cigars.- In self - igniting cigars and cigarettes, the fuse or tinder 4, placed between the tobacco T and the perforated mount 3 for the igniting-tip 2, is made of paper pulp treated with saltpetre and worked dry into a fine fluffy condition. The tip may be of any safety-match composition, such as chlorate of potash, antimony sulphide, and gum arabic, and a striking-surface, such as a mixture of amorphous phosphorus, antimony sulphide, and gum arabic, may be provided on the box or packet. In the case of cigars, the mount 3 may be of tobacco leaf.
Patent GB-191501973-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electro-optical Cells.
Inventor: STILLE CURT
IPC: H01G9/20
Filed: 1915-02-08
Granted: 1915-07-29
Abstract: 1973. Stille, C. Feb. 6, 1914, [Convention date]. Light-sensitive cells for telephotography and photometry. A system of prisms p<1>, p<2> and lenses v<1>, v<2> is arranged to utilize both sides of the sensitive electrode E. This electrode is of silver coated with a chromium or iodine salt; the other electrodes are of polished silver in sulphuric acid.
Patent GB-191504217-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Printing Apparatus.
Inventor: FRANCE ARTHUR GRAHAM
IPC: B65B61/26
Filed: 1915-03-17
Abstract: 4217. France, A. G. March 17. Rotary machines; inking-apparatus; printing-surfaces; impression surfaces; set-off, preventing; printing on tying-up tape.-An apparatus for printing advertisements &c. on tape used for tying-up packages is adapted to be suspended overhead, the tape being drawn out and printed as required, a special printing- roller with changeable single types and special inking-roller being provided. Fig. 1 shows the complete apparatus, Figs. 3 and 4 show sections at right-angles of the printing-apparatus, Figs. 5 and 6 show the inking-roller, and Fig. 7 the impression roller. The printing-apparatus is contained in a casing a having arms a<1>, a<2> secured together by a. bolt a<3>, by which the whole apparatus may be suspended. One side a<4> of the casing is hinged so that it may be opened to give access to the printing-apparatus. The tape c passes from a spool b through a slot a<5> in the upper side of the casing and out through a slot a<6>. The spool b is on a tubular shaft b<1> longer than the width of the spool, so that the spool may move laterally to adapt itself to the section of the spool from which the narrow tape is being drawn. Guards b<3> are attached to the arms a<1>, a<2> at each side of the spool. The printing-roller e is removably held by a screw e<2> on a pin e<1> fixed on a frame d secured in the casing a. It comprises a disk e<3> formed with a screwed sleeve e<4>, a disk e<5>, washer e<6>, and a leather washer e<7>, the tapes e<8> being clamped between the disk e<3> and washer e<7> by a fly-nut e<9>. A flanged impression roller f, Figs. 3 and 7, having an ordinary rubber band f<3> on its surface, is carried in a pivoted forked arm f<1> and pressed against the printing- roller by a spring f<2>. The inking-roller h is carried by a pivoted arm h<1> and is held against the printing-roller by a spring h<2>. The inking- roller comprises a flanged disk h<3>, Figs. 5 and 6, and a disk h<4> clamped against the flange by a nut h<5> on the bearing-sleeve, which projects from the disk h<3>. In the flange are a slot h<6> and openings h<7>, through which ink passes from the interior of the roller to a tape h<8>, wound round the flange and passed into the roller through the slot h<6>. A blotting-roller g, having blotting-material removably attached to its periphery, is journaled on the frame d. The tape, after passing round the guide i and between the printing and impression rollers, passes round the roller g and a guide i<1> and out through the slot a<6>.
Patent GB-191507682-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mop.
Inventor: STOTT ROBERT
IPC: A47L13/252
Filed: 1915-05-22
Abstract: 7682. Stott, R. May 22. Mops.-In a mop, the mop cloth A' is threaded over a metal or wire holder B bent into a circular, square, or other hook shape, one end of which is free and preferably centrally disposed, while the other end over which the cloth is threaded is retained rigidly in position on the handle C. The cloth is formed from a woven piece of fabric having lateral fringes, or by laying strands between two narrow strips of woven material. When folded, the two sides are stitched or secured together by pressbuttons or other detachable catches.
Patent GB-191508192-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Boxes or Containers.
IPC: B65D5/70
Filed: 1915-06-02
Abstract: 8192. Marks, E. C. R., [Stokes & Smith Co.]. June 2. Unpacking.-A box, 11, Fig. 3, of cardboard &c., completely enveloped in a sealed wrapper 12, Figs. 2 and 3, has in one or more of its walls a cut or otherwise weakened line 14 near one of the edges, a tongue 15 integral along its root with the wall being thus formed. A dotted line 18 printed on the wrapper, or other mark &c., indicates the presence of the tongue. By pressure, the wrapper may be readily broken and the tongue forced inwards, further pressure from the inside on the adjacent wall 19 breaking this wall outwards, and the wrapper becoming broken about the line 20. The line 14 may be formed in the box blank, which may be of the form shown in Fig. 1, the flaps 25 being sufficiently narrow to provide offsets 25<a> to engage the side walls. In another example, the box consists of two telescoping shells, the outer one of which may be constructed from the blank 30, Fig. 7, having weakened lines or cuts 35 for the purpose described.
Patent GB-191510294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Burners for Gas Fires.
Inventor: GRAFTON WALTER
IPC: F23D14/48
Filed: 1915-07-15
Abstract: 10,294. Grafton, W. July 15. Atmospheric gas burners.-A burner for gas-fires is provided, in immediate proximity to each nozzle, with an apertured screen 1 of non-spherical form and tapering downwards from the part adjacent to the nozzle, there being no part of the screen wider than any part nearer the nozzle or narrower than any part farther from the nozzle. The screen 1 may be of perforated or slotted metal, or of gauze, or of refractory material such as steatite, magnesia, fire-clay, &c. The screen may be conical, Fig. 1, or conoidal, Fig. 8, or may be formed as a connected series of triangular prisms, Fig. 4, and is supported by the overturned edge 2 resting on a shoulder in the burner orifice. The burner outlets 4 may be formed in a single plate, Fig. 1, secured to the burner, or formed by an internal flange 4, Fig. 6, on the burner nozzle or on a ferrule 3 which prevents displacement of the screen 1.